With a hundred people as helpers, the blast furnace can be completed quickly.
Blast furnaces fortify steel, and the output is extremely high. For the supply and demand of more than 10,000 people in the Shu army, two blast furnaces can easily handle it.
The Tatar army did not know when they would attack Wanlayer Gorge, and the battle between the two armies was imminent. For most of the day, Chen Mu and his party had not left the weapons room.
It wasn't until midnight that the two blast furnaces were finally completed.
As long as the batch of pig iron is delivered tomorrow, steel will continue to be produced from it.
The food in the army is very unpalatable, but that’s understandable. After all, anyone who doesn’t pay attention may die, so who would put their thoughts on cooking?
It's enough to eat.
As for Huo Quxie, he has not come back since he left. However, the young general next to him, Lin Qiye, has been helping in the weapons room.
It was late at night. After dinner, Qi Zeguang and others found a spacious place and fell asleep.
But for some unknown reason, Chen Mu didn't feel sleepy at all.
Leaning next to a bluestone in the armory, looking at the stars in the sky, I felt very bored.
"Sir, are you still awake?"
But at some point, Lin Qiye also walked out of the house, and then walked beside him with a smile.
"It's you, you helped me a lot during the day, aren't you tired?"
While chewing grass roots, Lin Qiye said: "With the situation of the two armies on the verge of breaking out, not only me, but our remaining 10,000 brothers also find it difficult to sleep. I don't know... When I open my eyes again, my head will be hit by those group of people.
The barbarian took it off."
Chen Mu has experienced the feeling of life and death, but the chilling and tense feeling on the battlefield is incomparable.
"General Lin, is he also from Sichuan?"
Lin Qiye showed a nice smile: "Yes, people from Qingchuan, Lizhou, have been losing battles in these years and have never been able to go back, but now it's fine. With the help of our husband, we can win the battle this year... You can also go back to see our family
He’s such a bastard, haha, come to think of it... he’s eight years old this year.”
"How long...has it been since you went back?"
"It's been...eight years since I joined the army, and I still don't know...what that kid from home looks like."
After saying that, Lin Qiye sighed again.
In this bright moonlit night, this sound only feels so desolate and desolate.
War is always a game played by the politicians of the two countries, and the real people who suffer are always the common people.
Chen Mu paused. Even though he had the memory of his previous life, he had no confidence in winning. Lin Qiye's words invisibly put a lot of psychological burden on Chen Mu's heart.
The most embarrassing thing in this world is that everyone expects you extremely much, thinking that you are their last hope, but you are not.
"I advise brothers not to think too highly of me. I am just making some sharp swords. To say that it will definitely change the situation of the battle... is an exaggeration."
"Haha, my intuition has always been very accurate. When I first met General Huo, I actually didn't think he could change anything. But when I met Mr. Huo, I had a strong intuition that Mr. Huo would definitely change things.
That person from Qiankun."
Lin Qiye said it very seriously, but Chen Mu felt that what he said was too mysterious, so he smiled and stopped talking.
"Sir, can you come with me to the military camp?"
Chen Mu paused: "What?"
"Let sir know...why I said that sir is the one who turned things around."
The Shu Army camp is very close, about half a mile away.
After Lin Qiye showed his token to the patrolling soldiers, he entered the Shu army's garrison.
But after seeing the real military town camp, Chen Mu couldn't help but frown.
In fact, it is not like what you see on TV, where tents are set up everywhere for soldiers to rest.
There are only a dozen or so, and Yuemao is also the residence of Shu army officers.
As for the remaining tens of thousands of Shu troops, those with better conditions will build a shed with wood and treetops, but the surrounding trees and grass are limited after all, and most of the Shu troops almost directly use the same sky as their quilts and the same ground.
Crowds gathered here, and even though it was in the open air, there was still an extremely fishy and unpleasant smell that lingered in Chen Mu's nose.
It is exactly what Lin Qiye said. Most of the sergeants are half asleep and half awake. If they make a little noise while passing by, a group of soldiers will wake up immediately. Those bloodshot eyes are eye-catching.
I was both shocked and sad.
After wandering between life and death for a long time, the nerves of these soldiers have become extremely sensitive.
"It's really... miserable!" After leaving the military camp, Chen Mu could no longer suppress his misery and sighed loudly.
As for Lin Qiye, he was already used to it. He patted Chen Mu on the shoulder and said, "Sir, did you notice that most of us did not have a decent sword or armor during our inspection?"
Yes!
These words immediately reminded Chen Mu. He had only been lamenting in his heart just now and had not taken a closer look at these things.
Along the way, Chen Mu only saw about five thousand people, wearing bamboo armor and equipped with a decent sword.
When I think back to other sergeants, many of them are holding farm tools such as hoes and sickles...
Chen Mu really couldn't believe that the weapons of a majestic Yuxi main army were so backward.
"Does the dynasty just expect them to defend themselves against those grassland cavalry with a hoe?"
Lin Qiye sighed: "It is said that it is the main army, but since the beginning of the war, the Shu Army has been responsible for blocking the galloping cavalry on the grassland. Coupled with the annual payments for years, the army's military expenses are tight, so the only way to save money is on the Shu Army.
It’s on my head.”
This world is different from the previous life. In the previous life, the war between Han and Mongolia from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty was complete.
The war period is too short, and future generations have not yet had time to figure out things like horse pits and caltrops.
Therefore, in the past, at the beginning of a war, the troops would move some stones to set up roadblocks, but it can be seen that in addition to cavalry, the Tatars also have infantry.
Therefore, later on, I thought of using living people to slow down the cavalry so that the cavalry could not run, so that the elite troops behind could take the opportunity to attack.
But in the face of the extremely powerful prairie cavalry, the effect of a glimpse of the human wall can only be said to be minimal.
"But... Sir, do you know that in terms of bravery and courage, our Shu army is truly the number one in Longxia? Even if they are holding weapons that are not weapons, if Sir, you can see them facing those cavalry, you
You will find how brave and tragic this group of people must be!"
Every word Lin Qiye said was sonorous and powerful. As Shu soldiers, their lives in the army were too oppressive.
They were armed with the worst weapons and doing the most deadly things. In the end, the whole army had to blame them for losing the battle.
As for Chen Mu, he was speechless at the moment, and felt ashamed in his heart for Bai Ri's conjecture. How could these people be cowards who were afraid of death? They were clearly real heroes!
As for what Lin Qiye meant, Chen Mu probably understood that the Shu army at the moment lacked everything except the good swords and armor that he could make.
If this group of soldiers who are willing to die are allowed to fight, there is no way that the entire war situation will really change because of them.